Over twenty years ago John Blanchard compiled ‘A treasury of quotations for Christians’ called Gathered Gold. It was so well received that it had to be reprinted several times and augmented by two further volumes, More Gathered Gold and Sifted Silver.

Now the time has come to make all of this material available to a new readership and in a new format. Approx. 1,000 further quotations have been added, making some 16,000 in all, and the whole work is presented as a new hardback edition. With quotations from many hundreds of sources, it is hoped that The Complete Gathered Gold will be a valuable resource for preachers, Bible class teachers and group leaders as well as a ‘gold mine’ for all Christians to dip into whenever they would like to read a gem of truth on any of the 600 or so subjects covered.

Dr John Blanchard is an internationally known Christian author, teacher and conference speaker. He received an award for his best-selling book Does God Believe in Atheists? as the best UK Christian Book for 2001. He is the author of many books including: Can we Rock the Gospel?, Evolution: Fact or Fiction?, Has Science Got Rid of God?, How to Enjoy your Bible, Is Anybody out There?, Is God Past his Sell-by Date?, Meet the Real Jesus, Read Mark Learn, Truth for Life, Ultimate Questions, Whatever Happened to Hell?, Where is God when things go wrong?, Where was God on September 11? and Why Believe the Bible?

Here are some commendations from the original books of quotations:

'Here is an ideal source book of quotations for preachers, teachers, and other Christian communicators. It will also be a means of direction, inspiration, insight, encouragement and help to countless "ordinary" Christians in the rough and tumble of their daily lives.' - Christian News

'This book is a delight. It is full of choice extracts and pithy comments from an array of authors and speakers representing the life-long collecting habits of the compiler. It will be of enormous value to preachers and speakers who are always looking for the telling quotation which will sum up a point in an interesting and thought-provoking way.' Grace Magazine

'Worth its weight in gold! John Blanchard has chosen his material judiciously and with width of vision.' The Vine

'Thanks for all the hard work that has made this book (and your many other helpful books) possible. You have royally fulfilled your own quotation on page 638: "Time should not be spent, it should be invested in the kingdom of God".'

'The wise use of a quotation in speech or writing can be very effective, provided it is employed to reinforce a point in a memorable way, and not as a substitute for one’s own thinking or as a means to show off wide reading by name-dropping.'
Review from The Covenanter Witness (April 2007)

'Though this is not a book to read but rather to browse, this compilation will be helpful to all who preach and teach.'
Review from Grace Magazine (May 2007)

'This superb collection of crisp quotations from a wide range of authors is the kind of reference book we should all appreciate and use. The author wisely and deliberately omits all negative and anti-Christian statements, but includes poetic gems as well as prose quotations.'
Review from Peace and Truth (2007:3)

'On not a few occasions the reader will suddenly be gripped by some phrase or comment which will open doors to a multitude of other thoughts. This will be a volume one will turn to again and again. Thoroughly recommended.'
Review from English Churchman (3rd & 10th August 2007)

'Since John Blanchard became a Christian, he has had an "insatiable appetite to hoard pithy statements that summarized important truths or expressed valuable insights in memorable ways". Some of this indexed collection grew into three books published by Evangelical Press: Gathered Gold (1984), More Gathered Gold (1986) and Sifted Silver (1995). These three volumes, plus new quotations (some from the author’s own thirty books at the publishers’ suggestion), forms this attractively produced volume with easy-to-read print.'
Review from The Gospel Magazine (November-December 2007)

'Not since reading 1200 Notes, Quotes and Anecdotes by A. Naismith, can the present reviewer remember seeing any book quite like this one...'